504 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. XIII. 



Picumnus amazonicus SNETHLAGE, Orn. Monatsber., XIV, 1906, p. 60 (Dis- 

 trict of Para).* 



Range: British Guiana east to Para. 



Picumnus varzeae b Snethlage. VARZEA PICULET. 



Picumnus varzece SNETHLAGE, Ornith. Monatsb., XX, No. 10, 1912, p. 154 

 ("Fazenda Paraiso bei Faro," Rio Jamunda); Id., Bol. Mus Goeldi, VIII, 

 1914, p. 256 (Obidos, Rio Jamunda). 



Range: Northeastern Brazil. 



*Picumnus spilogaster SundevalL SUNDEVALL'S PICULET. 



Picumnus spilogaster SUNDEVALL, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, p. 100 (Guiana); 

 HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 532; CHUBB, Bds. Brit. 

 Guiana, I, 1916, p. 498 (Upper Takutu Mts.; Ituribisi River; Supenaam Riv- 

 er; Bartica; Bonaskia River; Abary River; Georgetown, British Guiana); 

 BANGS and PENARD, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LXII, No. 2, 1918, p. 59 

 (Paramaribo). 



Range: British Guiana. 



2: British Guiana (Georgetown). 



Picumnus d'orbignyanus Lafresnaye. D'ORBIGNY'S PICULET. 



Picumnus d'orbignyanus LAFRESNAYE, Rev. Zool., 1845, p. 7 (Bolivia); CA- 

 BANIS and HEINE, Mus. Hein., IV, 1863, p. 15; REICHENBACH, Scans. Pi- 

 cinae, 1854, p. 345. 



Picumnus orbignyanus MALHERBE, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 283; HARGITT, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 533 (Salta); HARTERT and VENTURI, 

 Nov. Zool., XVI, 1909, p. 229 (Rio San Francisco, Prov. Jujuy, Argentina); 

 DABBENE, Anals. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, XVIII, 1910, p. 278 (San Lor- 

 enzo, Jujuy; eastern Salta, Argentina). 



Range: Bolivia and northern Argentina. 



Picumnus sclateri Taczanowski. SCLATER'S PICULET. 



Picumnus sclateri TACZANOWSKI, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 327 (Lech- 

 ugal); BERLEPSCH and TACZANOWSKI, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, pp. 

 537. 57; Id., 1885, p. 122; TACZANOWSKI, Orn. P&rou, III, 1886, p. 66; 

 HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 534 (Guayaquil and Bal- 

 zar Mts., Ecuador. 



Range: Ecuador and Peru. 



I have not seen birds from Para (amazonicus of Snethlage). Hellmayr (Nov. 

 Zool., XIII, 1906, pp. 349-350) and von Ihering (/. c.) consider it a synonym of P. c. 

 macconnelli and include northeastern Brazil (Para, etc.) in the range for that form. 

 Nevertheless Chubb (Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 498) restricts the range of 

 macconnelli to British Guiana. 



b Picumnus varzece SNETHLAGE: Male, Nasal feathers yellowish; forehead up 

 to the crown, fiery red, the feathers with black bases; rear of head up to the ear 

 coverts, black with round white spots; sides of the head very narrowly banded with 

 black and white; wings brownish gray, the border of the flight feathers brighter; 



